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EXTRA!

I came back from the fields of West Marin

having spent 2 long days with a thousand others—

an untrained army of first timers like myself.

Come as you are, we were not actors

the logistics of moving us in geometric formations

when we’ve had no formal training, or never stood in bread lines.

Across the potholes, the stars arrive in a stretch limo

and a woman in a pink bathrobe and curlers steps out

to join the Basque herder with his sheep

and the Japanese business men bow low.

People hover like guardian angels to powder and primp them

while we, AT&Ts legions of feudal peasants,

the ordinary, the mundane, we are left

to fend for ourselves against the elements.

My lip doubled in size from windburn and a spiderbite

As we stood in countless formation,

conversation wandered from boundary to boundary.

The young woman Shauna, who’d beaten childhood cancer and won

was fey and could see my well-dressed wounds;

Santa Claus (you recognize him from the magazines and catalogues)

limps from a bad car accident down the Grapevine.

Those having survived near death experiences shed a different light,

a homing beacon to others, tribe within tribe.

As the camera crew aligns us for the nth take

the ‘copter again swoops up the valley.

In this setting, conversation takes on epic proportions

and people’s lives become poignant,

reduced to five-minute fragments,

shaped by location and group consciousness

despite the fact that we were doing a commercial for cell phones

where we too were far away from civilization for real cell phones to work

we reach out and touch the Basque farmer (really from Tomales).

The idea being one small planet appeals.

Cards and stories were traded like a swap meet or stockbrokers.

We had transcended the mundaneness that is the death of art

the prize was the sky and wind.

5/25/02

Chileno Valley

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